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Evidence-Based Health Care

Evidence in Women's Health: Why is endometriosis difficult to diagnose?

We discuss evidence around delays in diagnosis of endometriosis and speak with Dr Annalise Weckesser and Dr Sharon Dixon, who have both researched endometriosis from the perspective of women as patients and from that of GPs.
Anthropology

Birth tourism from China and Taiwan to the United States: cosmopolitan strategies and aspirations

Sean Wang (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin) delivered this seminar as part of the COMPAS/Fertility and Reproduction Studies Group series on 11 February 2019
Journey of a Molecular Detective; David Sherratt

Anne McLaren Lecture 2018

Anne McLaren Lecture 2018: Gene Editing in Human Embryos
International Migration Institute

The cultural tranmission of the fertility transition: Evidence from internal migrations in 19th century France

Hillel Rapoport (Paris School of Economics) looks at theories of migrants' social remittances in a historical context relating to fertility in 19th century France
Anthropology

Does 21st-century technology change the experience of early pregnancy and miscarriage?

In this Fertility and Reproduction Studies Group seminar, Ingrid Gramme (Oxford) discusses how our basic understanding of pregnancy and miscarriage has changed enormously over the last eighty years, 9 November 2015
Anthropology

Birds in heaven: social positioning of lost babies and their mothers in Qatar

In this Fertility and Reproduction Studies Group seminar, Susie Kilshaw (UCL), discusses the impact of pregnancy and loss on mothers and fathers, and other family members, in Qatar, 2 November 2015
Anthropology

The 'Unfortunate Mesopotamian Foetus'

Pregnancy loss and miscarriage in the ancient Near East - a Fertility and Reproduction Studies Group seminar, 30 November 2015 given by Marie-Françoise Besnier (University of Cambridge)
Journey of a Molecular Detective; David Sherratt

'David Miller’s Political Philosophy' Panel 2

This panel includes two talks: 'Religious Freedom, Public Space and Democratic Self-Determination' and 'Fertility, Mortality, and National Responsibility.' This conference was held to honour David Miller's contribution to political philosophy.
Anthropology

Negotiating nutrition: from baby to toddler in the Peruvian Andes

In this Fertility and Reproduction Seminar Bronwen Gillespie (Sussex) examines the the use of Sprinkles, a multiple-micronutrient product recommended by the state, in Peru (13 October 2014)
Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies

Economic Uncertainty and Fertility: Insights from Japan’s Long Recession

Joint seminar with the Department of Sociology and the Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies
Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies

Productive Motherhood: Women's Labour and Japan's Lowest-Low Fertility

Professor Mary Brinton, Harvard University, gives a talk for the Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies Seminar Series
Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies

A Comparison of the Determinants of Low Marital Fertility between Japan and Korea

Professor Kazuo Yamaguchi, University of Chicago, gives a talk for the Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies Seminar Series.
Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies

The Political Arena of Low Fertility - Comparing Japan and Germany

Professor Axel Klein gives a talk for the Nissan Centre for Japanese Studies Seminar Series.
Anthropology

Generational change and continuity amongst British mothers

Angela Davis of the University of Warwick discusses the sharing of beliefs, knowledge and practice amongst British mothers between 1940 and 1990 (a Fertility and Reproduction seminar from 14 October 2013)
Anthropology

Contextualising the 'new parenting culture'

Charlotte Faircloth of the University of Kent presents historical and sociological perspectives on adult-child relations (a Fertility and Reproduction seminar from 21 October 2013)
Anthropology

Caring and being cared for in north-western Amazonia

Elizabeth Rahman of the University of Oxford discusses the perinatal practices of a small group of Amazonian Indians with whom she lived (a Fertility and Reproduction seminar from 4 November 2013)
Anthropology

'I did not know how to tell my parents, so I thought I would have to have an abortion'

Ekaterina Hertog of the University of Oxford explores the negotiations between premaritally pregnant women and their parents in Japan (a Fertility and Reproduction seminar from 25 November 2013)
Anthropology

Be(com)ing papa: kinship senescence and the ambivalent inward journeys of ageing men in the Antilles

Adom Philogene Heron of the University of St Andrews investigates grandfatherhood in the Antilles (a Fertility and Reproduction seminar from 2 December 2013)
Demographic Trends and Problems of the Modern World

11. Does Government belong in the bedroom?

There are many examples, from the ancient world to Nazi Germany, of attempts to protect or to increase the birth rate and hence population size. Slides to accompany Prof David Coleman's talk on birth control from governments.
Anthropology

The 'down side' of assisted reproductive technologies

In this seminar for the Fertility and Reproduction Studies Group, Soraya Tremayne (Director of the FRSG) discusses 'Third party donation and the 'happy family' rhetoric in Iran'. 17 November 2011.

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